Author: james
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5 Tips on How to Choose Sunglasses for Someone Else
Sunglasses make great Christmas and birthday gifts because they are an affordable kind of luxury when compared to gifting favourites such as designer handbags and shoes; so if you’re feeling the pinch this year, you can still make someone feel really special with a pair of designer sunnies. They also make great gifts because they…
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How to Choose Sunglasses for the Winter
I once had a friend called The Fonz. My friends and I first gave him this nickname when we first discovered that he never left the house without his leather jacket and a pair of sunglasses. In fact, he rarely attended an event, day or night, summer or winter, without his trusty Ray Bans. We…
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Tats Incredible: Man on Stag Do gets ‘Ray-Ban’ Sunglasses Tattooed on Face
This story you might say has become a real eye opener. A man in South Wales woke up to a horrific shock this past week. After an all night jolly with his chums, he woke up to some mysterious etchings across his face. Now we all know what some people do in a drunken stupor…
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The Perils of Winter Wear
It’s winter again. The rain and the snow. The worries for our sights. Will we fall and break them, Will we lose our vision as the sleet stings our faces and covers our lenses. Take them off. We can see better although squinting as we go. As we put our hand over our brow. Stopping…
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Twilight Lenses Lead to Spooktacular Warning
Tis the season to be jolly. No hang on one second. That kind of festive talk is not for a few months yet! Yet with Christmas but a matter of months away and Halloween catching up on as fast as Usain Bolt, here’s a real stocking filler of a tale. According to recent reports, strange…
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Tech: Boots “Gadget Protection” Lenses Misleading Customers
The shoe or should that be boot is well and truly on the other foot this week. It turns out that high street optician Boots have been misleading customers with some of their most sought after lenses. They may well cost a bob or two but it has been revealed that this optician has been…
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Personal Experience: Living With Keratoconus
Well I knew it was bound to happen. I put it off for as long as possible. Procrastinated, made excuses winged, whined and complained but here they are as plain as the nose on my face. A brand new pair of specs. My first pair in over 15 years to be exact. That’s half my…
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What is Keratoconus?
So what is Keratoconus? The long and short of it is football shaped eyeballs. Strange? Yeah. The underlying cause is still unknown but the shape results from the stretching and thinning of the cornea. Over time the front of the eye loses its spherical shape forming instead a bulge or cone. This greatly affects the…
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New Research Shows That Wearing Glasses Can Positively Affect How People Perceive You!
Wearing glasses can dramatically change your appearance, and the right pair will highlight your features and make you feel good. However, there is now evidence that being a spectacles-wearer can also change the perspectives of those around you. The historical stereotype is, of course, that people who wear glasses are more intelligent. I call this the “specs effect”, and it can be…